Re: Bringing the Green Web to WordPress [via Sustainable Web Design Community Group]

What would really be cool is making a WP plugin that tied into
EcoGrader.com, plus the badge.

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Pete Markiewicz <pindiespace@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Give us widget code!
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jack,
>>
>> Thanks for posting this.
>>
>> On May 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, W3C Community Development Team <
>> team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:
>> With Mozilla's 2018 Internet Health Report finally shining a light on
>> sustainability, and thanks to Chris Adams' presentation at MozFest last
>> year, I've been inspired to seriously up my game in terms of helping
>> wherever I can in this field.
>>
>>
>> Mozilla’s been such a great force looking at the health of the Open Web.
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Internet_Health_Report
>>
>> Is there a link to  Chris Adams’ presentation?
>>
>> As a first step, I've put together a very simple WordPress widget that
>> allows users to easily add The Green Web Foundation's badge to their
>> website. I think of the widget more as a marketing tool than anything else
>> – i.e. it gets The Green Web Foundation into WordPress' shop window.
>>
>>
>> I like the The Green Web Foundation, but it isn’t being well supported.
>> I’ve been trying to get Amazon’s new green hosting listed:
>> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
>>
>> But as I understand it the GWF has  “a self-service account environment
>> where - normally - owners register their details and keep them up to date."
>>
>> So far Amazon hasn’t stepped forward to do this.
>>
>> You can see the widget in action on my blog (bottom of the sidebar).
>>
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> My next steps within WordPress are to create a theme that incorporates
>> all of the sustainable web design techniques. My goal is to make a theme
>> that can theoretically score 100 with Ecograder. I say theoretically
>> because some things are dependent on the host, MozRank etc. But if, for
>> example, I could get the demo site for the theme near to 100, that'd be
>> awesome. And I could also centre all of the content on the demo site around
>> Internet sustainability.
>>
>>
>> You know about these past talks about Sustainable UX:
>> http://www.sustainableux.com/talks/
>>
>> I like to look at this from a systems point of view, I wrote up this for
>> Drupal:
>> http://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/tips-sustainable-drupal-7-8-website
>>
>> Similar stuff could be done for WordPress.
>>
>> Also, hello everyone! I'm Jack and I work as an engineer on the
>> WordPress.com VIP team. I'm rather passionate about environmental
>> issues. :) I was the Green Party candidate in a UK parliamentary
>> by-election last year which meant I appeared on TV a bit!
>>
>>
>> Most performance issues will have a sustainability impact:
>> https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status%5B%5D=
>> Open&issue_tags=performance
>>
>> Also building in mechanisms like:
>> https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize
>>
>> But generally with Drupal I try to ask myself, what could be fixed in
>> core so that we don’t just fix the 1% of the users that actually add the
>> extension, but that we are able to shift the whole community. We’ve done
>> this with accessibility. Sustainability not so much.
>>
>> Imagine if we could save 1% of the power used in all of the WordPress
>> sites out there?  What if we could make incremental gains so that it was
>> easier for everyone to understand how their users will have better
>> experiences (and use less power) if sustainability wasn’t just an
>> afterthought.
>>
>> Mike
>> --
>> Mike Gifford, President, OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
>> Drupal 8 Core Accessibility Maintainer - https://drupal.org/user/27930
>> Twitter: @mgifford @openconcept_ca
>>
>> Open source web development for social change - http://openconcept.ca
>> Drupal Association Member | Acquia Partner | Certified B Corporation
>>
>>
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*Dr. Pete Markiewicz*
*Email:* pindiespace@gmail.com
*Portfolio:* http://plyojump.com
*Github:* http://github.com/pindiespace
*Linkedin:* http://linkedin.com/in/pindiespace
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*My "Ux in VR" presentations on Google Docs (note you can comment)WebVR 1.0
APIhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable
Ux in
VRhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable
virtual design blog:* http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com
*Sustainability template:* http://greenboilerplate.com
*Sustainable Ux in Virtual Reality for Sustainable Ux 2017 (narrated): *
*https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw <https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw>*
============================================================
=================
*Buy my book! *- Millennials and the Popular Culture
*Lifecourse:* http://www.lifecourse.com/store/catalog/lca/mpc.html
*Amazon Author Page:*
http://www.amazon.com/Pete-Markiewicz/e/B0069VZ7BG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2
============================================================
=================
*On that page, see my DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 entry video, "Team
Robomonster":*
*Team Robomonster *(DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge):
http://robotsthatjump.wordpress.com/category/team-robomonster/
============================================================
=================
*Indiespace *(1st to sell downloaded music, March 1994):
http://www.indiespace.com. Also see http://archive.org under
"Kspace.com" 1996 for our original site.
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